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One-Sided COIN and The Great Debate

... One-Sided COIN - Kelley Beaucar Vlahos, The American Conservative . ... In ... Quarterly , John Nagl and Gian Gentile continue the COIN debate with letters to the editor. ...

Blog post - Jun 22 2009 - 5:54pm - 6 comments - 0 attachments

Dear Boss, I Don't Just Quit, I Give Up

... Army doing its job” taskings and the “Cult of COIN,” I’m not sure if I’m in the Army or in the Air Force. ...

Blog post - May 14 2012 - 4:55am - 41 comments - 0 attachments

Population-Centric COIN in Afghanistan

... Many Paths up the Mountain: Population-Centric COIN in Afghanistan by Major Nathan Springer Download the full article: Population-Centric COIN in Afghanistan The reality of how Troops implement and execute ...

Journal Article - May 25 2010 - 3:05pm - 60 comments

How the U.S. military fell in love with 'Three Cups of Tea'

... continue to search for the silver bullet or holy grail of COIN, but I guess Mortenson has turned out to be a false prophet. Re: How ... it is worth, in the so called classic hearts and minds coin campaign of the British in Malaya it was exactly lots of glasses of your ...

Blog post - Apr 21 2011 - 3:31pm - 48 comments - 0 attachments

Is There an Islamic Way of War?

... when MG Dunlap used to fig-leaf his essays on airpower in COIN as not the Air Force's position despite absence of any balancing POV from ... the Small Wars Council (search religion, engagement, and COIN) and a large thread on the BCKS COIN forum I have been active in. What I ...

Journal Article - Mar 8 2010 - 4:48am - 30 comments

AfPak Hands: Flopping?

... pre-deployment training block which includes culture, COIN (Mr. Dave Kilcullen personally teaches a 4 day COIN seminar to each AFPAK Hand class) and 16 weeks of language training. 82% ...

Blog post - Apr 8 2011 - 3:30pm - 26 comments - 0 attachments

Why We're Getting it Wrong in Afghanistan

... falling down the slippery slope. The root of all evil is COIN, despite that it is only "the way" in the Lykke strategic model. In fact, ... trying to improve our understanding and ability to conduct COIN, we should use the body count. Skip any kind of stability operations, ...

Blog post - Sep 5 2009 - 8:14am - 23 comments - 0 attachments

The 800-pound Gorilla and Stability Operations

... often take the lead (hence arrogance) is because current COIN operations are still very kinetic and as such we, the miliary, are the ... often take the lead (hence arrogance) is because current COIN operations are still very kinetic and as such we, the miliary, are the ...

Journal Article - Jun 30 2010 - 4:48pm - 16 comments

Small Wars Journal Counterinsurgency Inquiry

... discount support to governance when it is associated with COIN...yet it also is associated with Stability operations. Wasn't that one of ... full spectrum operations as they reject aspects of COIN? In fact, the lines of effort for stability operations in Chapter 7 of ...

Journal Article - May 10 2011 - 6:04pm - 13 comments

5 May SWJ Roundup

... Journal, the Blog and the Council) Going AND Get a Nifty Coin to Boot Keep the Roundup (the Journal, the Blog and the Council) Going AND Get a Nifty Coin to Boot Al Qaeda White House Goes Quiet on bin Laden Raid ...

Blog post - May 5 2011 - 1:25am - 0 comments - 0 attachments